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Died. Julia Arthur, 80, Canada-born Shakespearean actress of the 1890s, widow of multimillionaire Yachtsman-Financier Benjamin P. Cheney (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad); in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 10, 1950 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Married. Virginia Hill, 33, pretty, hard-boiled mistress of the late Mobster Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel; and her ski instructor, Herman Johann ("Hans") Hauser, 38, Austrian glamour boy who was jailed in 1942 as an enemy alien; she for the fourth time; in Elko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1950 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Alan Burr Overstreet, visiting lecturer at Harvard University, has been given a post as associate professor of Government at Smith College, Benjamin F. Wright, the College's President, announced recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overstreet Goes To Smith Position | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

Speakers at the Forum are: Miss Lillian Hellman, well-known playwright; Dr. Marynia Farnham, author of "Modern Woman: The Lost Sex"; and President Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College. The moderator is President Benjamin F. Wright of Smith College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Girls' Education Is Forum's Topic | 3/17/1950 | See Source »

...young Benjamin Franklin organized ten convivial friends into the "Junto"*study club, to discuss such questions as: "Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard?" and "Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind?" The Junto club has long since disbanded, but it is still so famed in Philadelphia that when a group of public-spirited citizens started a nonprofit school for adult education in 1941, Junto seemed the logical name for it. Last week, the Junto told of making a business deal in its own self-interest that would have brought an amazed gasp from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Whence Comes the Dew? | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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